Angelica Goodden (born 1953) is a British academic. She is an emeritus professor at Oxford University and the author of multiple books including Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman and Madame de Staël: The Dangerous Exile.
Goodden is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford University, whose principal area of research and study is 18th- and 19th-century French culture, in particular literature and painting. She has authored several biographical books, including on subjects such as ÃÂlisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Germaine de Staël, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
In 2005, she published a biography of the Swiss neoclassical painter Angelica Kaufman. The book, Miss Angel: The Art and World of Angelica Kauffman, was generally well received by critics. John McEwan of the Literary Review called it "an amusing and solid biography". Kirkus concluded their review saying that "Goodden's well-measured life of the artist may help bring Kauffman's oeuvre back to light". However, Tom Williams for The Observer noted that the book made it "impossible to engage with the woman who was Angelica Kauffman".
Goodden also publishes reviews for the journal French Studies and the London Review of Books.
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